World health organizations estimate that 40 percent of children in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia suffer from chronic zinc deficiency, says Dr. Fernando Sempértegui, leader of several landmark studies on the effects of zinc deficiency.
In Senegal, a community-based organization is successfully using a human rights-based education approach to lower rates of female genital mutilation.
Trustlaw’s Lisa Anderson exposes the “silent health emergency” faced by child brides around the globe.
Human Rights Watch researcher Katherine Todrys guest blogs for Global Pulse on the HIV/AIDS fight in Uganda, where only one of 223 prisons has a medical facility equipped to provide adequate treatment for the disease.
Lily Boisson of CBC News writes that Somali women fleeing drought and famine in their home country face sexual and gender-based violence as they journey to the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya.
In this “ethnography of ideas in action,” anthropologist and human rights activist Winifred Tate investigates how various actors in Colombia have employed the concept of human rights in political mobilization.
Women who have experienced obstetric fistula in the past should give birth by cesarean section — but this prevention strategy is simply too expensive for many Kenyan women.
The Orissa court’s July 19 ruling to uphold the block on the refinery’s massive expansion is a success for local residents seeking protection from environmentally hazardous practices.